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  • News from West Bengal | 06 Feb, 2023 | ২৪ মাঘ, ১৪২৯
  • Mamata heads TMC’s star campaigner list for Meghalaya

    GUWAHATI: The Trinamool Congress has unveiled its star campaigners for the Meghalaya election with party supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and general secretary Abhishek Banerjee topping the list.Mamata has already sounded the poll bugle for state ...

    6 February 2023 Times of India
    TMC releases manifesto for Tripura polls

    AGARTALA: The Trinamool Congress released its manifesto for the Tripura assembly elections on Sunday. The party promised 2 lakh new jobs, Rs 1,000 per month for school students in classes 4 to 8 and unemployed youths, and social welfare ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    Child marriage crackdown: 2,278 held in 3 days in Assam

    GUWAHATI: The Assam Police continued with its crackdown on child marriage in the state for the third day in a row, with the number of arrests touching 2,278 on Sunday. A police statement said the arrests were made based ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    WB CM to inaugurate Duare Sarkar camps on Feb 9

    KOLKATA: The state government will launch service delivery camps across West Bengal on February 9 as part of its ‘Duare Sarkar’ initiative. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate it virtually from Panchla in Howrah. A senior official said that ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    Protest shield: Kol Police gets 500 more body suits

    KOLKATA: Recent protests on city streets have forced Kolkata Police - for the second time in successive years - to purchase a large number of riot gear for its force. The decision, coming after the clash between cops and ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    Wives storm police stn to release hubbies in Assam

    GUWAHATI: Police on Saturday used tear gas and wielded batons to disperse hundreds of women, many carrying their babies, who stormed a police station in Assam’s Dhubri district to release their husbands arrested the previous day on charges of ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    Tax hurdle for foreign holidays

    KOLKATA: The travel trade fraternity fears international tours that were just beginning to revive after taking a two-and-a-half-year hit due to the pandemic will again see a slump following the proposal to collect 20% tax from outbound passengers. Two ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    Kol hostels and PG units undergo upgrade

    KOLKATA: CCTV cameras, Wi-Fi, furnished accommodation, modular kitchens — hostels and paying guest accommodations in the city are undergoing change keeping pace with the times.Even hostels of government colleges and universities have introduced modern measures like CCTV cameras, Wi-Fi ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    46 pvt bus routes stop ops in Kol: Survey

    KOLKATA: Unable to counter the twin challenges of stricter pollution-control norms and a low fare structure, private buses are fast disappearing from roads, the number having reduced to almost half that of the pre-Covid times.A research by a bus ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    Work starts to bridge 9m gap of E-W Metro tunnel

    KOLKATA: After repeated setbacks, here's finally some good news for the East-West Metro corridor. The positive results of soil tests at Bowbazar's Durga Pituri Lane have propelled implementing agency Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) to start the crucial work ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    1 held with bullets at Kolkata airport

    KOLKATA: A man, Mohammed Ghalib, was arrested at Kolkata airport on Friday for allegedly trying to board a flight with four live ammunition without any legal documents, the police said. He was produced before a district court on Saturday ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    Porn racket: Guest house manager held in Salt Lake

    KOLKATA: A manager of a guest house in Salt Lake AL Block was arrested by Bidhannagar cops for allegedly running a pornography racket from there.Narayan Das, the accused, was arrested on Friday based on a plaint by a woman ...

    5 February 2023 Times of India
    4 heritage bldgs in Kolkata, 3 cities vie for green tag

    KOLKATA: Four heritage buildings in the city, including the KMC head office on SN Banerjee Road, will make a bid for a green building tag. A popular entertainment park in New Town will aim to be net-zero, producing its ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    Kol: Techie jumps to death from Sector V office

    Kolkata: A 25-year-old techie allegedly jumped to death from the 12th floor balcony of her office at Sector V on Friday evening.A cop said: “Aishwarya Sharma had some trouble at her workplace and her father had also gone there ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    WB railways allocation highest among states

    Kolkata: Among the states, Bengal received the highest budgetary allocation, that of Rs 11,970 crore, for its railway network this fiscal, Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a virtual press conference on Friday. By the end of 2023, ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    'Not giving FIR copy, post mortem report abuse of law'

    KOLKATA: Denying a person copies of FIR and post-mortem reports was "abuse of the process of law", the Calcutta High Court ruled on Thursday and asked the Kolkata Police commissioner and South 24 Parganas police superintendent to investigate officers ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    Kol: Big fat weddings pack bigger, fatter pocket pinch

    KOLKATA: This season, couples are paying a steeper price for tying the knot, with the cost of a big, fat Kolkata wedding shooting up considerably, compared with pre-pandemic times.The cost of a wedding has shot up by at least ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    Cancer care on wheels set to roll out in Kol today

    KOLKATA: A mobile breast cancer screening unit on wheels will roll out from the Rajarhat campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) on Saturday. The mammography facility's flag-off coincides with the World Cancer Day. Health experts said breast cancer ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    Sextortion cuffs on college student in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: The cyber cell of Kolkata Police on Thursday arrested a 21-year-old college student from Pathuriaghata in Jorabagan for allegedly duping a Mumbai resident of Rs 6,000 on a popular dating site. Of the 22 sextortion cases that were ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    Cooch Behar airport reopens on Feb 15

    JALPAIGURI/KOLKATA: The Cooch Behar airport, the second airport in north Bengal after Bagdogra, is set to resume operations from February 15, with one daily flight connecting Kolkata. The airport, one of the country's oldest, has been lying unused since ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    Kol gets no rain in 2 winter mnths; 'a rarity'

    KOLKATA: This winter has been an exceptionally dry one in Kolkata with the city receiving no rain in December and January, something which rarely happens, says the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC). While western disturbances usually trigger clouds and light ...

    4 February 2023 Times of India
    Odisha assembly LoP gives up security

    BHUBANESWAR: Leader of Opposition in Odisha assembly Jayanarayan Mishra on Friday said he gave up his personal security officers because he lost faith in Odisha Police after a policeman killed influential minister Naba Das on January 29.Two constables worked ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Sand mafias attack IAS officer in Odisha's Balasore

    BHUBANESWAR: IAS officer Chavan Kunal Motiram, posted as Balasore sub-collector, and his driver, were attacked at a place under Sahdevkhunta police station in Balasore district when the sub-collector had gone there for enforcement against sand mining.Balasore collector Dattatraya Bhausaheb ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Two brothers drown in West Bengal's Jhargram lake

    JHARGRAM: Two brothers drowned in a lake in West Bengal's Jhargram district on Friday, police said. The brothers, identified as Soumitra Jana (17) and Subrata Jana (20), went to the Durgahuri Eco Park along with a relative. While Soumitra ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    3 get life term in Kol for 2014 kidnap of bizman

    KOLKATA: A local court sentenced three men — Olonga Baidya, Julfikar Laskar and Dudhkumar Halder — to life imprisonment for being involved in a kidnapping case in 2014. Praveen Chhajer (32), a web design and development business owner, was ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Skeleton found in septic tank of Narendrapur house

    KOLKATA: A skeleton, along with rotting clothing, was found in the septic tank of a Narendrapur home on Thursday morning. The discovery has put cops back on the trail of two women from the locality who went missing a ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Cyclists to go on 800 km ride for a greener world

    KOLKATA: Citizens, including farmers, youths, and self-help group members, will join the six-day Cycle Yatra — Move for Earth — that will cover 800km in Bengal and connect with over 10,000 farmers, women and youths to map the climate ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Gold sales dip in Kol as price sails past Rs 60k

    KOLKATA: For the first time, the price of 24 Karat gold breached the Rs 60,000 mark (per 10 gm) on Thursday morning, leaving a deep impact on the sales of gold jewellery. Jewellery shops, lined along B B Ganguly ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Funds push for airport and Joka Metros in Budget

    KOLKATA: The Joka-Esplanade and the New Garia-Airport Metro corridors which received only Rs 350 crore each, last year, may have been allocated a whopping Rs 1,350 crore and Rs 1,200 crore, respectively, in the new fiscal. This will perhaps ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Ganguly seeks KMC nod to demolish bungalow

    KOLKATA: Former Team India captain Sourav Ganguly has sought permission from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation for demolition of the two-storied house on a 23.6-cottah plot that he had purchased on Lower Rawdon Street in May last year. The handover ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    'Visva-Bharati's 'political' attack on CM shameful'

    SANTINIKETAN/KOLKATA: Former Visva-Bharati vice-chancellors and ashramites on Thursday slammed the blatantly political statement issued by the varsity on Wednesday evening targeting chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her party, calling it "provocative", "unpleasant" and "shameful". Banerjee on Thursday did not ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Calcutta HC judge irked with CBI over edu probe

    KOLKATA: Calcutta high Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Thursday said he would himself investigate the primary school appointment scam and send a report to the Prime Minister if the CBI failed to submit a progress report into the court-ordained ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Woman assaulted with hammer & robbed in WB

    KOLKATA: A 65-year-old woman, who was alone in her apartment in Baguiati's Joramandir area, was allegedly hit on her head with a hammer and robbed of valuables and cash on Tuesday. The victim, Radha Agarwal, had to get multiple ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Kolkata chickenpox deaths worry doctors

    KOLKATA: A single hospital in the city has reported 26 deaths from chickenpox over the last three months, the highly unusual spurt in fatalities causing concern among state health officials.Chickenpox, a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella zoster ...

    3 February 2023 Times of India
    Dharmarajan appointed GOC Bengal Sub Area

    KOLKATA: Major General H Dharmarajan on Thursday took over as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) Bengal Sub Area on Wednesday.Dharmarajan is an alumni of National Defence Academy, Khandakwasla, IMA Dehradun and Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. The new GOC ...

    2 February 2023 Times of India
    CBI court rejects Partha Chatterjee's bail plea

    KOLKATA: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Thursday denied bail plea to former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with the recruitment irregularities in state schools, and extended his judicial remand till February 16.The court ...

    2 February 2023 Times of India
    TV actor arrested for abusing live-in partner in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: Actor Atish Bhattacharjee - who starred in several episodes of a popular crime-based show in Bengal - was arrested by Haridevpur police on Tuesday for allegedly physically assaulting and sexually exploiting his live-in partner, an aspiring model, for ...

    2 February 2023 Times of India
    Calcutta HC upholds life sentence for Pakistani terrorist

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld the life sentence of Pakistani terrorist Shahbaz Ismail (39) - a Pakistan Rangers-turned-Al-Badr member - who had been found carrying explosives to Jammu and Kashmir. He had been given a life ...

    2 February 2023 Times of India
    Budget boost to northeast air connectivity, infrastructure

    GUWAHATI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed more wings to take air connectivity and aviation infrastructure in the northeast to newer heights.She has proposed a higher allocation of Rs 12,477 crore for the revival of 22 airports and commencement ...

    2 February 2023 Times of India
    Kol cops return Rs 12.5L to cyber fraud victims

    KOLKATA: In a first in Kolkata, 25 victims of cyber fraud got back Rs 12.5 lakh of stolen money from police and banks on Wednesday. At a time when cyber crime is swiftly becoming a major threat and people ...

    2 February 2023 Times of India
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